Tag Archives: Julie Burchill

So, Hadley Freeman wrote this piece. Yesterday I submitted my first piece to the Guardian’s Comment is Free section – no idea whether they’ll publish it or not. It was ostensibly about Julie Burchill’s latest rant against trans women based on the media portrayal of Caitlyn Jenner, but actually, it was about how the media […]

It was pretty much a year ago that the Fleet Street week of shame commenced. It started with David Batty’s expose that Dr Richard Curtis was being investigated by the GMC – something that quite a few folk had known about for 18 months, and a report that raised questions about “balance” and “trans being […]

Yes, I know I’ve been quiet. I’ve been busy! And I figured folk would be getting a bit bored about problems with same-sex marriage. Life has a habit of pulling you in different directions, and the last three months have been very busy with the company I run. Despite all that, I was stunned to […]

Monday’s vigil seemed to come from nowhere. It’s certainly nothing to do with Trans Media Watch. It’s strongly positioned as a vigil of respect, not as a vigil of protest, for which I’m relieved. I plan to be there, to show my respects to another trans person, harassed then monstered by a press who wouldn’t […]

The Daily Express, for example, is outside of the Press Complaints Commission’s remit. So what do you do if they publish an inaccurate story, like the one about the costs of treating two trans prisoners approaching £100,000? Well, you phone them up, like Jane Fae says she did. The paper wasn’t interested in correcting things. […]

It’s not been a good 24 hours for trans people’s relations with the British press. Yesterday evening, the Press Complaints Commission ruled that Julie Burchill’s January article did not breach the Editors Code. On a strict “legal” definition, that’s true, as the Code only specifically restricts discriminatory articles against named individuals, and accuracy more generally. […]

This just in from the Press Complaints Commission: Commission’s decision in the case of Two Complainants v The Observer / The Daily Telegraph The complainants were concerned about a comment article which responded to criticism of another columnist on social networking sites. The article had first been published by The Observer. Following The Observer’s […]